Boys Golf

After coming up three strokes short of an MHSAA title last season, the seniors on the Jackson Lumen Christi boys golf team were determined to leave Big Rapids with a championship trophy this weekend. That determination was put to the test on both days of the Lower Peni...

There couldn’t have been three more appropriate words for Clarkston Everest Collegiate boys golf coach David Smith to describe the past, present and future of his golf program at the moment. “It’s all good,” Smith said.

For the past three seasons, the biggest drama with Detroit Catholic Central’s boys golf team hasn’t been whether or not it would win tournaments it competed in. Instead, it was a matter of how much the Shamrocks would win by and which player in its loaded l...

St. Johns boys golf coach Paul Sternburgh referred to it as a storybook ending. And that’s exactly how it will read for a man heading into retirement and his band of departing seniors.

Hailing from a school of just 90 students, Carney-Nadeau senior Hunter Eichhorn added one more statewide accomplishment last week by becoming the first in MHSAA boys golf history to win four Finals individual championships. Eichhorn shot a 66 at Irish Oaks Golf course ...

Three reigning MHSAA Lower Peninsula golf champions entered Regionals last week ranked No. 1 in their respective divisions by the state coaches association. But that also means there are 17 more teams in each of those divisions revved up to surprise at this weekend&rsq...

Claudette Brown couldn’t help but hold back tears Thursday. But the fourth-year coach had good reason to feel emotional. Her first class of seniors on the St. Ignace boys golf team had just won the Upper Peninsula Division 2 Final title at George Young Golf Cours...

It was business as usual for Hunter Eichhorn at Thursday’s Upper Peninsula Division 3 Boys Golf Finals. The Carney-Nadeau senior fired a 6-under-par 66 on this sunny and mild day at Irish Oaks Golf Course for his fourth consecutive U.P. title.

It isn’t easy to topple a team that has won the last three titles, but the Escanaba boys golf team pulled it off Wednesday afternoon at the Marquette Golf Club. The Eskymos unseated Houghton as Upper Peninsula Division 1 champion, outlasting neighboring Gladstone...

Individually, Coldwater’s shot putters might not be the most sizable guys muscling up to the pit at this weekend’s MHSAA Track & Field Finals. But as a group, the Cardinals might be the largest ever to advance to championship weekend – and perhaps...

Gaylord sophomore Brendon Gouin strung together four straight individual first places over the last two weeks to lead his team on a similarly stunning streak of success. From May 11-18, Gouin finished first at four straight 18-hole events, going lowest with a 68 at t...

Blaise Vanitvelt has been a dominant force on the golf course this season. But more importantly, the Flint Powers Catholic senior is enjoying playing with his younger brother and their friends – who are carding great scores of their own.

Collin Powers turned quite a few heads when, at the age of 10, he fired a hole-in-one in his first major junior golf tournament. Those who knew his golf pedigree just shook their heads and smiled.

With golf courses like TimberStone, Greywalls and Sweetgrass already ranked among the best in Michigan, and Sage Run expected to join that list soon, Upper Peninsula golf is becoming increasingly high class. Also contributing are some quality golfers past and present. ...

Dawson Block has his seven varsity letters earned over the last 2½ years piled on a table in his bedroom.  They aren’t in any particular order or out for display. In fact, they’re probably the most disorganized part of an incredibly organized gu...

Winters may keep golfers off the greens for at least a few months in Michigan. But this state certainly makes the most of its golfing weather the rest of the year, with plenty to boast from both peninsulas and the high school level included. Today's "Through the Ye...

Battle Creek Lakeview's Andrew Walker finished his high school career June 11 with his second straight MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 Finals championship, shooting a two-day 143 and then edging Plymouth’s Jack Boczar in a one-hole playoff at The Meadows at Grand...

It's no secret. Lansing Catholic has owned the Lower Peninsula Division 3 Golf Finals over the past decade. After the Cougars rolled to a double-digit victory over Tawas at their Regional, it looked like they were primed to capture a fourth straight Division 3 t...

Until Saturday, Clarkston Everest Collegiate had never won an MHSAA Finals championship in any sport during the school’s eight-year existence. That all changed during a five-hour round of golf Saturday afternoon, as its boys team lapped the field en route to capt...

St. Johns made its longtime boys golf coach Paul Sternburgh look like a prophet Saturday afternoon. Sternburgh, in his 36th season coaching the Redwings, had said his team would be as good as its third through fifth players played in the MHSAA Division 2 boys golf to...